Friday, 9 October 2009

Belhaven (#48) and Wexford (#49)

After an exciting weekend filled with interesting Eastern beers we come back to a more traditional way of reviewing beers. In the third episode of third season I'm about to review two islander beers. One Scottish and one Irish.

Well, Wexford is certainly a county in Ireland, and it did have a few breweries as far as the end of the 19th century (maybe even to early/mid 20th). The marketing behind this beer suggests that it's based on a recipe from one of those breweries from 1810 (would love to know which one!). That's about as close as they'd get, as in reality, Cream Ale is not really a type of beer in Ireland, and the creaminess is more to do with the nitro widget (certainly not around in 1810! :D).